State Supreme Court arguments Wednesday stemming from a wrongful-birth case, and a judicial challenge to the law precluding such lawsuits, focused on the procedural issues involved with enacting the legislation.
In Sernovitz v. Dershaw, the Supreme Court agreed to determine whether the Superior Court acted appropriately by declaring parts of Act 47 of 1988 unconstitutional and consequently remanding Rebecca and Lawrence Sernovitz’s wrongful-birth lawsuit back to trial court. The court said Act 47 violated the single-subject rule, which requires legislation to have only one topic that should be stated in the title.
